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Thirukkural 25

Chapter 3: நீத்தார் பெருமை (The Greatness of Ascetics) · Virtue

Kural 25

ஐந்தவித்தான் ஆற்றல் அகல்விசும்பு ளார்கோமான்
இந்திரனே சாலுங் கரி.

Aindhaviththaan Aatral Akalvisumpu Laarkomaan
Indhirane Saalung Kari

Their might who have destroyed 'the five', shall soothly tellIndra, the lord of those in heaven's wide realms that dwell

Meaning

Indra, the king of the inhabitants of the spacious heaven, is himself, a sufficient proof of the strength of him who has subdued his five senses.

Plain English meaning from the 19th-century prose translation by W. H. Drew and John Lazarus. The verse above is G. U. Pope's translation (1886).

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